First, the accomplishment must be honored: Even though the LGBT community has rightly hounded the Obama administration for not acting more swiftly on promised reforms, the fact that the president was able to bring DADT to repeal in the last moments of a lame-duck Congress is inarguably a huge achievement, and long, long overdue.
But just as an earlier post on CLGBT conveyed the injustice and insanity of the policy from the point of view of a soldier headed to Afghanistan, this piece from the Minnesota Independent reminds us, also from a soldier's point of view, that gays in the military will not be rushing out of the closet anytime soon. There's still that 60-day implementation period to deal with, and the forces of ignorance are not ready to surrender yet.
The Minnesota Army reserve officer tells the Independent,